You had to stand in line to hate him.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

I had always been proud of my body - its strength and grace enabled me to pursue my passions.

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.